Safely clearing drive space in macOS

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If you are running low on storage space in Mac OS, you may need to delete some files to free up space. This video shows a feature in macOS High Sierra and newer, which will show you an organized view of the files, folders, and applications on your system. This tool identifies which are taking up the most space and makes it easy to delete content that you need to clear away.

- [Instructor] In this week's Monday Productivity Pointers,…I wanna talk about what you can do to free up storage space…on a MAC when your hard drive is close to getting full.…Specifically, if you're using macOS High Sierra or newer.…The obvious solution if you're running…out of storage space is that you should delete some files.…Naturally, there are important files and documents…that you don't want to delete.…But chances are, there's probably something…taking up space on your storage drive that you don't need.…Let's see how we can identify stuff like that.…We'll start by going into the System menu.…

That's this menu in the top left with the little Apple icon.…And that menu will go to About This Mac,…then click on Storage,…and then there's a button here to Manage storage.…So this tool starts with some recommended techniques…for clearing up space on your drive.…The first option here, storing files in the cloud,…is something you should be very careful with.…If you use iCloud, the macOS can automatically…move your files to cloud storage…

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8/26/2019

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3/26/2013

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